How to set date.timezone for CodeIgniter to work with php 5.3

Question

When date.timezone in php.ini is commented out, it gives me:

A PHP Error was encountered

Severity: Warning

Message: main(): It

Answer 1

If you Googled "CodeIgniter PHP 5.3" you would have found this article pretty quickly :)

http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2009/12/CodeIgniter-on-PHP-5.3

To fix this, you only need to edit the main index.php for your CodeIgniter application:

if( ! ini_get('date.timezone') )
{
   date_default_timezone_set('GMT');
} 

This modification is something you will probably need to make for any CodeIgniter application running on PHP 5.3 and can easily be modified to your local timezone. There is a full list of supported timezones in the PHP manual here.